We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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